Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 23949
Paragraph count is not accurate
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:43:19 UTC
If I remember correctly from english class, the proper way to count a paragraph is not to count every hard return, but rather to count every hard return where some text exists before the hard return. Currently, OpenOffice counts paragraphs as every hard return. Test Case: 1. Create a document with the following: Test Test 2. Go to Tools/Word Count 3. look at the paragraph count. Expected: It should be 2 Actual: it is 6. Additional related suggestion: Perhaps also have line breaks counted for people who want that statistic as well. Basically, my thinking is the fact that since every hard return is counted as a paragraph. If you have a user who puts two returns after every paragraph, it will appear to them as if they have double the paragraphs that they really have in the document. If the desire to keep the linebreak statistic is there, then you can just rename the count in the word count dialog to linebreak count.
Reassigned to BH
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request. The Issue you raised has the status 'New' pending further action, but has not been updated within the last 4 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed. Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing): http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/ Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of: ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
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